‘Creative Sources’ delves into the inspirations and archives of the director whose name is synonymous with the borough.
“Before there was any such thing as a Republican or a Democrat, we were Black,” Denzel Washington intones. “Before there was any such thing as a Mason or an Elk, we were Black. Before there was any such thing as a Jew or a Christian, we were Black people. In fact, before there was any such place as America, we were Black. And after America has long passed from the scene, there will still be Black people.
“He is surrounded with these objects, and I think that’s the feeling you get in the exhibition,” show curator Kimberli Gant says. “You walk into a gallery and it just feels like, woah.”
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